Comments for Apple iPhone School

Comment on TwitLock Cydget – Tweet from your Lock Screen by foo

foo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:33:10 +0000

It’s not that all Cydgets are laggy…

Cydget is a framework that allows developers to create lock screen plugins (SpringBoard calls them “SBAwayViewPlugins”). Cydget allows these plugins to be created using Objective-C (NATIVE plugins), or web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Cycript (WEB plugins).

ANYTHING that developers create using web technologies is going to be MUCH, MUCH, MUCH slower than anything using Objective-C. There is absolutely nothing that can be done about this.

Unfortunately, most developers right now creating Cydgets are not that capable, so the only thing they can do is use the web stuff to write their plugins. Nothing wrong with that, but it means that they are going to be slow. Look for Cydgets made by reputable iPhone developers like Saurik, Ryan Petrich, etc, chances are that these are going to be native plugins and be full speed.

I don’t know what TwitLock is made with, but my hunch is that it’s a web-based plugin.

By the way, if you think about it, web-based cydget plugins are very inefficient… you’re basically running a full copy of safari right in your lock screen. Native plugins don’t have all that overhead! Of course, to write a native plugin you have to know exactly what you’re doing with Objective-C, which is why we see so few of them.

Hope that clears it up.

Comment on eBay App Update – Includes New Features by Tony

Tony — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:34:17 +0000

I live ebay

Comment on TwitLock Cydget – Tweet from your Lock Screen by Brooke

Brooke — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:31:03 +0000

Yes, I saw that in the documentation. Probably true since all Cydgets seem to be laggy.

Comment on TwitLock Cydget – Tweet from your Lock Screen by tomcrown1

tomcrown1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:15:45 +0000

He does bring up a bug in cydget. Once you check twitlock and respring you springbaord, you will crash it is not twitlock fault it is cydget bug.

Comment on Customize 2.2.1 by hussin

hussin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:11:31 +0000

Man, I’ve installed it right now on my iphone 3gs by cedia ”iprotect1.1”, but the only problem is on where I can get the registration code to open the app, could you please help me! thanx a lot

Comment on Jobs Personally Responds to Company’s Plea Against App Name Change by Ben Davis

Ben Davis — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:09:15 +0000

That is so rude to reply so simply. This man has gone to a great deal of letter to contact Jobs personally, and to respond so simply like that says “I don’t care” in a terribly rude way.
What a twat.

Comment on Matte Nano – WinterBoard Theme by K05ch3i

K05ch3i — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:12:47 +0000

It hasn’t resized three icons for me…

Comment on Dev-Team Releases Jailbreak – PwnageTool 3.1.4 by Budsoda

Budsoda — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:45:20 +0000

“NEED HELP” My 3G iphone is 3 week old …running 3.1.2 firmware.and it’s been jail broke with Blackra1n and everything was fine…. and till went to restore it so i could take it back to at&t and upgrade to a 3GS iphone for $100.00 more… So I went to setting to restore all and now all my iphone keep trying to boot over and over…Can some one help me please…. Thanks

Comment on Jobs Personally Responds to Company’s Plea Against App Name Change by Craig

Craig — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:13:41 +0000

“Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal,” is totally hilarious. I don’t think Steve Jobs had the same “not that big of a deal,” attitude when Apple Records (the Beatles) asked him to change the name of “Apple Computers.”

How many lawsuits have there been over that name screw-up?

Comment on Jobs Personally Responds to Company’s Plea Against App Name Change by Souskei

Souskei — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:39:53 +0000

Wow.. That was a pretty bad way of saying it..
He couldve been a lil more nice about it